Murphy’s Little Big Weekend Old Beamish and Crawford site, Cork
They were all about pushing boundaries, his new act is just peddling in nostalgia. Hook, who played bass with Joy Division and New Order, seems simply to have run out of ideas.
Hook is not the worst of frontmen. He lacks the late Ian Custis’s edgy presence, but his gruff persona and passable vocals carry the act. His band, The Light, play note perfect versions of the doom-laden anthems that sound-tracked the dark end of the British new wave — ‘She’s Lost Control’, ‘Isolation’, and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ all get an airing — but you can’t help thinking Curtis must be turning in his grave.
